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Definition of canon law in English:

canon law

noun

‘The Church has centuries of canon law - canon law which the American bishops did not use - specifically designed to deal with such offenses.’

‘On the one hand, the bishops seemed simply to ignore many of the requirements of the natural law expressed in canon law.’

‘Within the Church of England canon law had, until 1969, allowed for the use of exorcism, provided that permission was obtained from the diocesan bishop.’

‘This was when the notion of a consensual, holy, and indissoluble bond was most refined and carried into the greater world by canon law and church courts.’

‘The tensions between civil law and canon law are mentioned in Dignan, pp.46-52.’

‘Surprisingly, there is no rigorous distinction between the two terms in canon law or in theological dictionaries - or for that matter in legal dictionaries.’

‘Since a civil court could not determine what is or is not required by canon law, it must accept the university's own determination of its obligations.’

‘In carrying out this responsibility, Lutherans adapted received Catholic canon law and the procedures of ecclesiastical courts to the civil realm.’

‘Legal historians frequently define themselves by the variety of law they study: canon law, common law, or custom.’

‘Among Anglicans, responsibility for the good order of the Church is placed in the hands of bishops by custom, rites of ordination, and canon law.’

‘It acquires the status of canon law in a series of three church councils in the sixth and seventh centuries.’

‘Bishop Murphy said, in his opinion, the current debate about the status of canon law and civil law is an academic one.’

‘During this period the Maronite Church came into full communion with the Western Church; it preserved its own hierarchy, liturgy and canon law and its patriarch was made directly subject to the pope.’

‘The bishop submitted his resignation, as required by canon law, when he became 75 years old on November 3, 1999.’

‘The university had freely chosen to be governed by canon law and to obey the Vatican's declarations, and if they were inconsistent with academic freedom, so be it.’

‘They looked at canon law and Church bureaucracy and argued that it bred inefficiency, graft, injustice, worldliness and immorality.’

‘He also repairs the historical amnesia of the document through a detailed review of theology, canon law, and papal pronouncements on slavery over the centuries.’

‘Secondly, the study of Roman and the church's canon law from the late eleventh century provided much of the language and many of the ideas for thinking about the state.’

‘Eventually the church regulated marriage through canon law.’

‘According to canon law, the powers of the bishops' conference, except in matters liturgical, are almost entirely advisory.’